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I earned my BA in Professional Writing from SUNY Cortland in 2008.

I run a blog called (Un)Motivate(d) Me at http://unmotivatedme.blogspot.com/, and am constantly improving it and learning how to market it.

I was a Managing Editor for a content productive

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Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Assessing sexism in gaming: Is it still a boy's world?: 1 of 16

Are video games still a boy's world? Ha! Is the sky still blue? Character design in most common role-playing games (RPGs) is catered primarily to young men. Even female roles are designed to be appealing specifically for male audiences, but does that mean there isn't any hope for a change? No necessarily, but it will be a lo...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Why I play darts: 2 of 14

Why We Play Darts I'm going to let you all in on a terrible secret: in the times I've attempted to throw a dart, I've either fallen on my face or made holes in the surrounding furniture. If I were to seriously try to play darts, I would probably injure someone. It's harder than it looks! However, In the interest of public sa...
Religion & Spirituality > Catholicism Argument against eliminating celibacy for priests: 3 of 11

I can't help but notice that organized religion often require too much suspension of disbelief. Just to put such demands into perspective: I'm the kind of person that watches zombie movies and argues that the helicopter the characters are escaping in can't possibly hold that many people at one time; never mind the roaming le...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Struggles in life: 104 of 258

She stood in the dressing room trying on the dress. It was black and little and clung to her shape magnificently. She was beautiful and statuesque in it; a Renaissance sculpture or a silver screen super actress. She was figure and curve and sex appeal in it, with tight auburn curls cascading from the roots of her head and cr...
Religion & Spirituality > Catholicism Testimonies: What I would reform in the Catholic Church: 9 of 19

Generally speaking, the last time the Catholic Church was called to reform some of its teachings, procedures or practices, the end result was the the Protestant Reformation! In this day and age, when a classmate studying the sociology of the Scientologist community informed my class that many of its members became deeply dep...
Religion & Spirituality > Catholicism Would reforms water down Catholicism?: 3 of 6

How do you "water down" a religion? When reforming it, what part exactly is getting watered down? It's an odd idea. The only way I could think of taking the bite out of a religion as strong as Catholicism is to get rid of some or all modern controversies. But is that really "reform" or "restoration"? One such controversy sug...
Religion & Spirituality > Catholicism Future generations and Catholicism in the US: 2 of 4

Forgive me if I seem naive and intentionally haughty, but I don't have much faith in my generation, the FUTURE generation. Never mind Catholicism. I don't see us as a terribly enthusiastic bunch, especially towards religions with suspicious pasts. Catholicism, in its most common form, will probably experience a drop in atten...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Survival: 25 of 39

Prologue. One thousand, seven hundred and twenty-eight feet. We stood that high while we watched the world burn around us. I stood in the field on the side of the road, holding Alex's hand while we watched the windmills in the next county over swoop slowly in the breeze, their blades burning. "We could kill ourselves now," h...
Religion & Spirituality > Catholicism Confession is not permission to commit more sin: 20 of 30

Confession scares the crap out of me! Frankly, I'm not too excited about potentially going to the same Heaven that my friend's creepy uncle and Mel Gibson are going to (never mind Mel's anti-Semitic fits; that's too easy. Instead consider his bad habit of twisting historical facts to fit his, dare I say it? Propaganda). Howe...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Why girl gamers should not be underestimated: 14 of 21

My girlfriend told me a curious story the other day. She was playing Halo 3 on Xbox Live when someone realized her voice sounded extra girlish. Girly voices are not an uncommon phenomenon on Xbox Live, as ALL the voices sound like prepubescent twelve-year-old boys (and for the most part are). When she confirmed that she was,...